Education

This is the story of 17 year Seboti Pahariya. Born and raised in Amguri, 110 km from Dibrugarh, she is from a family of tea garden workers. She had to quit school five years ago when she was in Class VI to help the family deal with medical expenses of her ailing mother. Seboti will join Class VII in

This is the story of two village children who started their studies in Ekal Vidyalayas in their villages. Later they joined former schools and after further studies have joined the army and Central Industrial Security Force (CISF). Many others who started their initial entry to literacy in Ekal have

The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has approved creation of National Testing Agency (NTA) as a Society registered under the Indian Societies Registration Act, 1860, and as an autonomous and self-sustained premier testing organization to conduct entrance examinations for

The Union Cabinet on 24 th October 2017 approved a Rs. 7,002 crore plan for construction of permanent campuses for six new IITs, to be completed by 31 st March 2020. Each campus will have facility for housing 1,200 students, beginning from the academic year 2020-2021. Currently, these institutions

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Dr Raman Singh dedicated to the people state's first Dev Sanskriti University in village Sankra near Kumhari. This University has been developed by Gayatri Pariwar. In this University 53 subjects will be taught including Yoga, Dharam Sashtra, IT. छत्तीसगढ़ के मुख्यमंत्री

At IIM Ahmedabad, students of PGP (postgraduate) and PGPX (executive postgraduate) programmes recently learnt some valuable lessons from India’s ancient fables, the Panchatantra. The management lessons were based on the understanding and interpretation of conflict in the Panchatantra. These were

For the first time in history, Rajasthan has recorded more girls than boys in enrolments at higher education institutes. For the academic year 2016-17, the department has recorded a total enrolment of 4.67 lakh girls against 4.65 lakh boys at colleges, universities and diploma centres. "Girls

A few angels in disguise have come in the form of a few architecture students of Jamia Milia Islamia, in New Delhi who have taken up the task of providing primary education to children living in the settlement where the construction workers reside. These architecture students, who will be designing

University Grants Commission (UGC) has asked universities to start courses on disaster management and financial emergencies. These courses must cover topics such as bomb threats, earthquakes, explosions, hazardous material spills/release, campus shootings, terrorist incidents. They must also cover

The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are likely to significantly increase their intake in the next academic year, providing at least 1,000 additional engineering aspirants with an opportunity to study in the premier establishments. A senior human resource development (HRD) ministry official

A 98-year-old man, who wished to have the tag of being a postgraduate, finally completed his master's programme on Monday. Nonagenarian Raj Kumar Vaishya fulfilled his long-due dream by securing a master's in economics from the Nalanda Open University (NOU) 79 years after he graduated in the same

The general perception is that government schools are not good, and if possible even the poor want to send their children to private schools. This mind set prevails all over the country, and if one talks of Uttar Pradesh one can not think of a good government school. However, one government primary